1910

• Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910 in the United States. Our Boy Scouts were based on the British organization begun by Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857-1941), the first Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell. He invented the idea of earning rank and merits badges. Baron Baden-Powell also organized the British Girl Guides which became Girl Scouts here in the U.S.A.

1911

• Ronald Amundsen (1872-1928) reached the South Pole on December 1911.

1912

• Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage. More than 1,500 people drowned.

1913

• Mar. 4, 1913 Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) is made president.

1914

• WWI begins.

1918

• First airmail service is established in the United States.
• Czar Nicholas II was executed along with his wife and children.
• By September over 1,200,000 United States soldiers join the Allied forces in WWI.
• The Imperial family of Czar Nicholas of Russia are executed.
• Civil War breaks out between Communists and anti-Communists in Russia.
• On November 11th Germany and the Allies sign an armistice ending World War I.

1919

• Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Wilson had a stroke on October 2, 1919, so he was unable to accept this award in person.

1920

• Women are given the vote in the United States.

1922

• Howard Carter (1873-1939) discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen.
• 1922 - The Russian Empire is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.

1927

• Charles Lindburgh (1902-1974) flew across the Atlantic Ocean.

1928

• Nov. 6, 1928 - Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) is elected president.

1929

• August 1929 - share prices reach a peak.
• October 1929 - Stock market crashes. People panic and sell their shares.

1922

• The Russian Empire is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.

1932

• The height of the Depression.
• 12 million people in the United States are unemployed.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected President.

1933

• Roosevelt announces his New Deal.
• In Germany there are 6 million unemployed.

1935

• In Great Britain, 200 men march from Jarrow to London with a petition drawing attention to unemployment.

1939

• Around 15 percent of the United States workforce is still unemployed

• Germany annexes Czechoslovakia. Italy annexes Albania.
• Germany and Italy are allied.
• Great Britain, France, and Poland are allies.
• Germany invades Poland (in Sept.) after signing a non-agressive pact with the USSR.
• Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
• USSR invades Poland (Sept. 17th)

1940:

• USSR takes Finland.
• German submarines attack British merchant ships (Mar.)
• Germany occupies Norway, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands (April-May).
• Germany occupies France (June).
• Allies evacuate from Dunkirk (June).
• Battle of Britain (Aug.-Oct.)
  Germans defeated preventing Hitler's planned invasion of Great Britain.

  Italy tries to invade Greece (Nov.)

1941:

• Hitler (Germany) invades his former ally, the Soviet Union.
• Full employment returns to the United States.
• The United States joins in World War II after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

1944

• Most of our birthdays - Class of 1962
• November 7, 1944 Harry S. Truman is elected Vice-President.

1945

• April 12, 1945 Harry S. Truman takes his oath of office as president.